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1 Centavo Torre De Moncorvo
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Moncorvo |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse is divided into three vignette panels: at left, a detailed engraving of the medieval Torre de Moncorvo (the town's historic keep); at right, a vignette of a ruined stone archway with a watermill; at centre, a guilloche-framed panel bearing the large numeral '1' with spaces for two manuscript signatures below the legends 'O PRESIDENTE DA C.ÃO E...' and 'O TESOUREIRO'. The issuer's name 'CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE MONCORVO' arches across the top border, with 'SERIE B' at lower left and the serial number at lower right, the designer's credit 'A. QUEIROS DES.' appearing at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 Centv. (Translation: 1 Centavo) |
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Torre de Moncorvo is a small municipality in Trás-os-Montes, the remote northeastern corner of Portugal, and its câmara issued this cédula during the acute coin shortage that paralyzed local commerce across Portugal in the early 1920s. Municipal and parish authorities throughout the country were authorized to print their own low-denomination emergency paper, and hundreds of distinct issues appeared between roughly 1917 and 1925 — Torre de Moncorvo's being among the more obscure.
The A. Queiroz designer credit is local; these cédulas were typically produced by small regional printers with no connection to the Casa da Moeda.